From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 13:07:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5A616A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:07:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB94343D46 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so1277003rng for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=Pjtv9ZypGrCU/z+aGqIcyvt+tRYOmqLe0ajR9CAxhg/msuU4ab20HkvlsEZSrl3XvISPj8wbtp+nG+xMhkLcwYc80IzisD3NKE0rhfnIP7JXRsXQ7LHz5dFMMvCW2zGBr4L+BgRxZd2umF/3eTcwiBuamKqsaQl/RAOZ59YOVGo= Received: by 10.38.73.55 with SMTP id v55mr1792034rna; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ([59.93.166.188]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f3sm7324415rne.2005.07.18.06.07.37; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42DBA98D.4040005@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:37:25 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <42DB32EC.8020400@osdir.com> <42DB3564.9050001@gmail.com> <42DBA613.3070005@osdir.com> In-Reply-To: <42DBA613.3070005@osdir.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060808070600050200090302" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OSDir.com Screenshots of your FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:07:41 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060808070600050200090302 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/18/2005 18:22, Chris wrote: >> FreeBSD is NOT ANOTHER PENGUIN IMPLEMENTATION > > > Yeah.. I know what *BSD is, smartass. > >> Secondly, I believe that this concept of posting screenshots is >> pretty unprofessional and childish. Its like saying "Yay! my desktop >> is prettier than yours". At FreeBSD we concentrate more on quaality >> than looks. Secondly, FreeBSD does not have any Native GUI unlike few >> distributions like Mandrake who use a costomized GUI. Thus IMHO a >> FreeBSD screenshot would just be a black screen with some scribbles >> on it :-). > > > How about some installation screenshots? You will find them in the handbook Installation Chapter. BTW please be kind enough to wrap your mails at 72 chars. You make life miserable for poor souls like me who cant afford more than a old P1 running only CUI. Thanks S. --------------060808070600050200090302--